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Opera on 3

Music: Classical: Opera

Programme presenting rare and fascinating operatic performances

Programme presenting rare and fascinating performances and vividly communicating the immediacy of the live experience

Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring: Die Walkure

Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring: Die Walkure: Part 3: Act 3

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Wagner's Ring

Part 3 Part 3: Act 3

Act 3

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Wagner's Ring, Die Walkure, Act 3

Act 3 of Wagner's Die Walkure performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Act 3 of Wagner's Die Walkure performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With Eva-Maria Westbroek as Sieglinde, Bryn Terfel as Wotan and Susan Bullock as Brunnhilde.

Wagner's Die Walküre, Act 3
Presented by Donald Macleod

Another chance to hear Wagner's Ring originally broadcast live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in October broadcast act by act daily over the Christmas period. In Act 3 of Die Walküre, the second opera in Wagner's Ring Cycle, Wotan strips his Valkyrie daughter, Brünnhilde, of her divinity, as she failed to carry out his order to destroy Siegmund. Brünnhilde's punishment is to be left in a magic sleep on a fire-encircled rock.

Siegmund.....Simon O'Neill (Tenor)
Sieglinde.....Eva-Maria Westbroek (Soprano)
Wotan.....Bryn Terfel (Bass-Baritone)
Brünnhilde.....Susan Bullock (Soprano)
Fricka.....Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-Soprano)
Gerhilde.....Alwyn Mellor (Soprano)
Ortlinde.....Katherine Broderick (Soprano)
Waltraute.....Karen Cargill (Mezzo-Soprano)
Schwertleite.....Anna Burford (Mezzo-Soprano)
Helmwige.....Elisabeth Meister (Soprano)
Siegrune.....Sarah Castle (Mezzo-Soprano)
Grimgerde.....Clare Shearer (Mezzo-Soprano)
Rossweisse.....Madeleine Shaw (Mezzo-Soprano)
Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Conductor, Antonio Pappano.

Opera on 3: Wagner's Ring

Die Walkure

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Relays of the four music dramas comprising Wagner's epic Ring Cycle

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, relays of the four music dramas comprising Wagner's epic Ring Cycle

Donald Macleod presents Wagner's Die Walkure, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Donald Macleod presents Wagner's second Ring drama Die Walkure, in a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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